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  1. book review
    In Wandering Stars, Tommy Orange Writes a New Secret HistoryThe author’s second novel, after the dazzling There There, follows family members who are inheriting more than they know.
    By Emma Alpern
  2. books
    Sarah J. Maas Is the Mortal Queen of Faerie SmutHer massively popular series, including “A Court of Thorns and Roses,” mix fantasy lore with soft-core romance — and a whole lot of trauma.
    By Kathryn VanArendonk
  3. encounter
    Venita Blackburn’s First Novel Runs on DenialWith her book Dead in Long Beach, California, she takes on the kind of grief that can lead to deception.
    By Mariella Rudi
  4. encounter
    In Lexi Freiman’s Books, It’s So Easy to Be WrongHer novel The Book of Ayn is about a newly canceled person in a toxic relationship with her ego.
    By Emma Alpern
  5. book review
    In Alex Pheby’s Novel Malarkoi, God Is Dead and Objects Are AliveThe second book in Alex Pheby’s trilogy Cities of the Weft spins fantasy tropes in strange and visceral new dimensions.
    By Emma Alpern
  6. encounter
    Marie NDiaye Gets Under the SkinThe French writer’s refusal to overexplain makes her books even more unsettling.
    By Jasmine Vojdani
  7. encounter
    Andrew Lipstein Tries To Be GoodIn his novel The Vegan, he imagines a finance guy desperate to atone — and not for the sins you’d think.
    By Emma Alpern
  8. profile
    Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah Is Asking the Hard QuestionsAfter his first book was a hit, he decided to use his follow-up to tackle the most pressing issue he could think of: the US prison system.
    By Mallika Rao
  9. fall preview
    How Gwendoline Riley Makes Words FailIn her brutally funny novels My Phantoms and First Love, conversation only makes people feel more alone.
    By Rachel Connolly
  10. encounter
    ‘Have You Read Nevada?’Imogen Binnie’s first novel became a staple of trans literature. Nine years and one reissue later, how much has the culture changed?
    By Harron Walker
  11. book review
    Either/Or Is a Coming-of-Age Story That Moves at the Speed of ThoughtEither/Or is a sequel to Elif Batuman’s campus novel The Idiot — and it reveals what she’s been up to this whole time.
    By Sarah Chihaya
  12. book review
    In These Novels of Tech Dystopia, Memories Belong to the CloudJennifer Egan’s The Candy House and Vauhini Vara’s The Immortal King Rao are two very different books with a troubling shared prediction.
    By Mallika Rao
  13. profile
    ‘The Goal Is to Get As Bright As Possible’For the highly prolific writer Akwaeke Emezi, literary success is a spiritual calling.
    By Maya Binyam
  14. perfil
    Fernanda Melchor y la tragedia del machismoCon historias inspiradas en el crimen, la novelista arroja luz a los rincones oscuros de la masculinidad.
    By Max Pearl
  15. profile
    Fernanda Melchor Writes Tragic MachismoIn her crime-inspired novels, male fear and desire are two sides of the same coin.
    By Max Pearl
  16. book review
    Sheila Heti Does It the Artist’s WayHer novel Pure Colour is strange, even incoherent. But it also has the power to make you feel better.
    By Jennifer Wilson
  17. profile
    Sean Thor Conroe, ProtégéBefore the writer could publish his first novel, Fuccboi, he lost his fiercest advocate. Now he’s facing the hype alone.
    By Molly Osberg
  18. book review
    The Sentence Shows the Downside of UrgencyLouise Erdrich’s novel takes on the 2020 protests — and draws conclusions that feel dated already.
    By Jennifer Wilson
  19. book review
    Kwon Yeo-sun’s ‘Lemon’ Is a Murder Mystery That Refuses to Be SolvedThe novel by Kwon Yeo-sun tracks the aftermath of a teen girl’s murder, with three very unreliable narrators.
    By Arianna Rebolini
  20. book review
    A So-So Franzen Novel Is Still Better Than Most Books. That Said …In Crossroads, too many boring characters are boring in the same way.
    By Molly Young
  21. a long talk
    Jonathan Franzen Thinks People Can ChangeEven if, as his book Crossroads suggests, it’s nearly impossible to make it stick.
    By Merve Emre
  22. book review
    In Chang-rae Lee’s My Year Abroad, There’s No Escaping the SelfThe novel by Chang-rae Lee turns a coming-of-age trope into something much more bleak and strange.
    By Jennifer Schaffer-Goddard
  23. profile
    Hearing Things With Ruth OzekiHer latest novel teems with voices — most of them belonging to what she might call “nonhuman persons.”
    By Helen Shaw
  24. radical grief
    adrienne maree brown Says ‘All Organizing Is Science Fiction’The writer on Grievers, her speculative novel about Black grief during a pandemic — which she started writing years before COVID-19.
    As told to Mary Retta
  25. a long talk
    How Colson Whitehead Pulled It OffHis new novel is Harlem Shuffle, a very New York story about life in the gray area between legitimacy and hustle.
    By Craig Jenkins
  26. book review
    Sally Rooney in the StruggleBeautiful World, Where Are You is both her clearest attempt to wrestle with big ideas and her least readable novel.
    By Jane Hu
  27. fall preview 2021
    The Party Girl’s RevengeMarlowe Granados’s debut novel, Happy Hour, is a picaresque for the glamorous and broke.
    By Sangeeta Singh-Kurtz
  28. fall preview 2021
    Knausgaard Debarks for a New Frontier: Genre FictionNorway’s most famous self-exile talks to Torrey Peters about his horror-inspired novel The Morning Star.
    By Torrey Peters
  29. fall preview 2021
    40 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This FallIncluding Sally Rooney, Colson Whitehead, Tiphanie Yanique, and, yes, Jonathan Franzen.
  30. encounter
    The Untidy Tales of Katie KitamuraHer hypnotic new novel asks: What happens when your main character is a passive witness to her own life?
    By Molly Young
  31. profile
    Rivka Galchen’s Unsettling PowersHer new novel is about a vicious, real-life witch hunt—and she somehow still managed to make it funny.
    By Hillary Kelly
  32. summer 2021
    35 Books We Can’t Wait to Read This SummerTreat yourself to new reads from Akwaeke Emezi, Rivka Galchen, Paula Hawkins, and more.
  33. book review
    In Klara and the Sun, Artificial Intelligence Meets Real SacrificeKazuo Ishiguro’s novel proposes a world where the machines never revolt.
    By Helen Shaw
  34. entanglements
    Brontez Purnell, Author of 100 Boyfriends, on Conjuring the Ghost an ExThe daddy of the Oakland DIY scene has a new novel about the afterlives of intimacy.
    By Saam Niami
  35. how mysterious!
    Mystery Writer Tana French’s Tips for Crafting a Red HerringHow the author of In the Woods and The Witch Elm leads the reader down the wrong trail.
    By Tana French As told to Lila Shapiro
  36. obit
    Russian Novelist Aleksander Solzhenitsyn Dies at 89The writer opened Western eyes to Communist oppression — and, in turn, got his own character on ‘Seinfeld.’ A life well lived, indeed.